Quotes About Society

What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.

In some ways I really think that men are beasts.

Wherever there is human nature, there is drama. But — it is not always just where you think it is. Remember that.

But it wasn't really scandals Miss Marple wanted. Nothing to get your teeth into in scandals nowadays. Just men and women changing partners, and calling attention to it, instead of trying decently to hush it up and be properly ashamed of themselves.

Mr. Satterthwaite's conversation was apt to be unduly burdened by mentions of his titled acquaintances.

Toat? lumea se a?teapt? ca educa?ia s? fie un drept fundamental ?i nu pun mare pre? pe ea când o primesc!

Servants were the main topic of conversation in St. Mary Mead, so it was not difficult to lead the conversation in that direction.

It is really a very hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a Billingsgate fishwoman blush! I

So many noble ideas flowing about. But then, you see, whom have you got to work out the ideas with? After all, only the same human beings you've always had. You can create a third world now, or so everyone thinks, but the third world will have the same people in it as the first world or the second world or whatever names you like to call things. And when you have the same human beings running things, they'll run them the same way.

Enemies! People these days don't have enemies ! Not English people!

Getting soft—that's the curse of the present day.

From what you read and hear nowadays, it seems that murder under certain aspects is slowly but surely being made acceptable to a large section of the community." She

they are only full of pity for the young killer, because of his youth. Why should they not execute him? We have taken the lives of wolves, in this country; we didn't try to teach the wolf to lie down with the lamb–I doubt really if we could have. We hunted down the wild boar in the mountains before he came down and killed the children by the brook. Those were our enemies–and we destroyed them. What

Women, however charming, have this disadvantage: They distract the mind from food! You

What," asked Dr. Constantine with interest, "does a pukka sahib mean?" "It means," said Poirot, "that Miss Debenham's father and brothers were at the same kind of school as Colonel Arbuthnot.

On my way home, I ran into Miss Hartnell and she detained me at least ten minutes, declaiming in her deep bass voice against the improvidence and ungratefulness of the lower classes. The crux of the matter seemed to be that The Poor did not want Miss Hartnell in their houses. My sympathies were entirely on their side.

Lord Cronshaw's party consisted of six people: he himself, his uncle, the Honourable Eustace Beltane, a pretty American widow, Mrs. Mallaby, a young actor, Chris Davidson, his wife, and last but not least, Miss Coco Courtenay. It was a fancy dress ball, as you know, and

The day of the Old Men is over," said Tommy, waving his hand. "Who caused the war? The Old Men. Who is responsible for the present state of unemployment? The Old Men. Who is responsible for every single rotten thing that has happened? Again I say, the Old Men!

One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.

There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly. Poirot said dryly: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!

More murders have been committed for respectability than one would believe possible! The

lots of women buy their clothes in Paris, and have not, on that account, necessarily poisoned their husbands.

Oh, yes, Madame. I have known of—shall we say A?—being removed by B solely in order to benefit C. Political murders often come under the same heading. Someone is considered to be harmful to civilization and is removed on that account. Such people forget that life and death are the affair of the good God.